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  1. Re:Hare-brained gets a new meaning! on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 1

    What if the poor creatures were as 'reproductive' as humans and as intelligent as humans??

    Egad! That would make them.... human!

  2. Re:body odor? on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1

    Well, if one were looking for bad examples to show the class.....

    In reality, those examples can be found on any number of teacher forums. Trouble is, they aren't posted as examples.

    By the way, IANAET.

  3. Re:Yes, but... on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1

    The other, though, is the result of fat accumulation in this area...

    Ah. You refer to steatopygia. The type you find attractive would be considered callipygian.

  4. Re:body odor? on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1

    Oh, and it isn't `begs the question`.

    Actually, while 'raises the question' might be more accurate, 'begs the question' is acceptable.

  5. Re:Odour or Odor? on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1

    We all know that it's Odor though..... right?

    Apparently there is a difference between American stench and Euro-stench. Perhaps Americans are one letter less stinky, or the Brits are able to trace the odour to 'u'.

  6. Re:We already have those. on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 1

    When I use creatine I notice an increase in flatulance. It doesn't necessarily become more fetid but it certainly is more, um... boisterous....

  7. Re:body odor? on Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...lack of creatine (= vegetarian diet) is causing redused brain abilities than Creatine boosting brain power.

    I would bet that only the lowest levels have a reduced intelligence while the rest is average.


    Did you have some creatine between sentences?

  8. I feel quite secure.... on Identity Theft Countermeasures? · · Score: 1

    I have diligently followed a series of procedures that have ensured the safety of my identity from damage by theft. The key decisionsI have made have left me poor and with lousy credit. Nobody wants to be me.....

  9. Re:My Statement on Kiddie Porn - The Virus Did It · · Score: 1

    Had your comment simply been, "Framing the guy for something else is wrong." I'd have been in complete agreement with you. In fact, I specifically agreed with you on that point. The remainder of my post wasn't addressing that aspect of your comment which is why I quoted the portion I took exception to. You did contend that the molested kid should just accuse the molester of the real crime and I pointed out that your simplistic answer doesn't work in reality. It's disingenuous to contend that my comment was irrelevant to a portion of your post it wasn't meant to address.

  10. Re:Cases like this are rediculous on Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension is an important skill. You might want to work on it. I don't stand next to the smoker, I'm affected if I'm within thirty or forty feet - and smoke doesn't cause me to cough (well, it probably would in sufficient quantities). The trouble is that smokers can't seem to self-regulate. They tend to stand right at the entrance to a non-smoking establishment (sometimes it's the fault of the proprieter for putting their ash trays at the door but even without ash trays they congregate there). Some of them just don't think, but I think most of them are just sociopaths who revel in their anti-social attitudes. You know the sort - someone who'd anonymously call someone they don't even know an assclown while demonstrating their complete ignorance of the issue at hand.

  11. Re:Do you think the recall is fair? on Ask the 'Geek Candidate' for California Governor · · Score: 1

    The candidates ALREADY face a more difficult standard to get him OUT of office (majority vs. plurality) than it took him to get in. If you look at it honesty, the recall procedure is slanted IN FAVOR OF the incumbent, not against.

    Right. The complainers aren't looking at this properly. There are two questions being asked:

    1. Do we want this guy as our governor? Yes/No

    2. If not, who do we want?

    The numbers or percentages of votes in either have no relationship to the other.

  12. Re:Considerable Issues on Kiddie Porn - The Virus Did It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If she was molested, she should accuse him of that.

    Granted, if framing him was what she did, it was wrong. However, your statement assumes that people believe kids when they accuse adults. I've counselled a number of kids who've been molested and the psychological pressure the molester usually employs keeps most of them from telling. Those who do tell often start with the other parent (usually mom) who often blames the child and sides with her husband/boyfriend. After that, telling the authorities is out of the question, I mean, if mom won't believe you....

  13. Re:Cases like this are rediculous on Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ignoring the fact that you or they could easily stand somewhere else if outside, and, if you live in a city, you're likely breathing in things far more dangerous than a bit of second hand smoke..

    While the last statement is true, the first is not. There is no place I can stand outside a restaurant or public buiilding where smokers congregate around the door to get in their last few puffs before going inside and not be affected by the smoke. Cigarette smoke gives me a raging headache almost immediately. Cigars and pipes don't but the cigs always nail me. Second hand smoke drifts, it does not fall straight down nor does it rise straight up. Inside a building is even worse.

    If you want to abuse your lungs that way I have no problem with it, but enacting laws to limit where the activity can take place (to protect those of us who are affected) is, as you pointed out in your other examples, legitimate. Smoke at your house and I won't come over, but don't tell me I can choose to stand somewhere else in a public place.

  14. Re:someone had to say it ... forgive me please ... on IBM Countersues SCO, And More! · · Score: 1

    But hey, lack of quality control is one of the pillars of slashdot.

    And you didn't even cite the example from the post you replied to: We're prodcuign a generation that can't do a good 'all your base...' variant.

  15. Re:Just like Grey Davis on Kazaa CEO vs. Hilary Rosen · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could walk on to Santa Monica beach, swing a bat over your head, and any of the first nine people you hit would make a better leader than Davis.

    Is that before or after you konked 'em in the head with a bat?

  16. Re:The problem that just won't go away. on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 1

    8. If you're a programmer, write an e-mail system that spammers can't abuse. People might like something like that. I bet they'd use it.

    Hey, yeah! Then I could write another program to harvest email addresses from the net and send everyone an email to tell them about my great new email program! I'm just a few steps from financial freedom now!!!!!

  17. Re:Trashing GNC? on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 1

    Suprise! The benefit comes from the workout, not the placebos that GNC sells.

    So, none of those folks worked out before taking the supplements? The only way someone takes supplements is if they start an exercise program for the first time? Clinical studies involving already exercising individuals not taking a particular supplement are flawed in some way?

    You sound like you're speaking from the enlightened position of one who neither takes supplements nor exercises.

  18. Re:a guess on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 1

    Oh, man. You must've gotten a Pet Rock knock off (or a chip off the old rock?).

  19. Re:Intuitive is a myth on Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney · · Score: 1

    Even the fabled nipple....

    Nipples aren't real? Dang!

  20. Re:for wine to work properly, you need windows on Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney · · Score: 1

    I think you mean that for Windows to work properly you must drink lots of wine. Actually, it doesn't make it work any better but you care much less when it crashes and blame it on yourself.....

  21. Only story? on Slashback: Railing, Blocking, Scoffing · · Score: 1

    Was the StarWars kid the only story in this slashback?

  22. Re:This is why nobody mirrors these things on Amphibious RVing for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Naw. I clicked on both of 'em to see which one was still up....

  23. Re:Oooo. Ooo. Ooo. on Amphibious RVing for the Masses · · Score: 1

    There was an RV helicopter some years ago (I believe it was offered by Winnebago - they didn't manufacture it but outfitted the interior).

  24. Re:Well on Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO · · Score: 1

    So, is this A particular blind pig then? Is it likely that this is the pig from whence we get "in a pig's eye!" as placing things in pigs eyes would likely result in some impairment of vision?

  25. Re:maybe 100 years.... on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Usually the e-ticket kiosks are manned with a person or persons directing traffic and/or helping the technologically inept. If you can read a menu and poke at the screen they pretty much leave you alone except to check your bag(s).